John Nichols: Carly Fiorina's Campaign Against a Free and Open Internet

[marmar]

via CommonDreams:




Published on Friday, September 3, 2010 by The Nation
Carly Fiorina's Campaign Against a Free and Open Internet

by John Nichols


Carly Fiorina, the millionaire former Hewlett-Packard CEO and telecommunications industry executive, is running for the US Senate as a candidate who supposedly knows a thing or two about technology.

But California Republican appears to be a lot less interested in realizing the promise of new technologies than in warping federal policies regulating those technologies in order to make it easier for big telecommunications companies to get a whole lot bigger -and a whole lot wealthier-at the expense of consumers and democracy.

How so?

By subdividing the Internet so that telecommunications companies can "prioritize" certain content. Translation: She wants multinational corporations to be able to buy establish and information superhighway for corporate content while steering the content that might serve the public interest onto a digital dirt road.

Fiorina has repositioned herself as an ardent opponent of Net Neutrality, the principle that says all Internet content must be treated equally-and that assures Americans can easily access every site on the World Wide Web, not just those set up by big corporations.

The candidate, who bought her party's Senate nomination with heavy spending from her own bank account, wants to go to Washington to protect the interests of people like her. To do that, she says she will work to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from using its authority to preserve a free and open Internet. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/03-9

[Submariner]

1. I thought the republican teabagger party was into "FREEDOM"

which makes me wonder why they always want to get into our bedrooms, a woman's uterus, marital preferences, and now internet restrictions.

Doesn't sound like FREEDOM to me. It smells more like that marxism commie crap that Beck ahole keeps whing about.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. They mean THEIR freedom to control YOUR life.